Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermillion - Hardcover

Elder, Donald C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877458499 ISBN 13: 9780877458494

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2003

Synopsis

William Vermilion (1830-1894) served as a captain in Company F of the 36th Iowa Infantry from October 1862 until September 1865. Although he was a physician in Iconium in south central Iowa at the start of the war, after it ended he became a noted lawyer in nearby Centerville; he was also a state senator from 1869 to 1872. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher who grew up in Indiana; she and William married in 1858. In this volume historian Donald Elder provides a careful selection from the hundreds of supportive, informative, and heart-wrenching letters that they wrote each other during the war - the most complete collection of letters exchanged between a husband and a wife during the Civil War.

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About the Author

Donald Elder is professor of history and chair of the department at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. He is also the editor of A Damned Iowa Greyhound: The Civil War Letters of William Henry Harrison Clayton (Iowa 1998) and author of Out from behind the Eight-Ball: The History of Project Echo.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877458499
• ISBN 13: 9780877458494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408